Another hour yet!!!!!!!!

another hour yet before i open up the dark ybs,been up since 6 oclock ill have nodded off before its time to open at 9..................

8am i take mine off dark, late today had extra cup of tea at loft longer today

hi steve, take mine off at 9, only thing is it means if im up a lot earlier i cant do anything around the loft for egsample cleaning others out or exercising them because it will wake the ybs up

steady walk over now to open up, been a long three hours.....................

mine come of dark at 8 am and go back on at 4pm

thats ok mark, nothing wrong with that........each fancier must do it to suit their own hours, as long as they get the 8 hours needed its ok.

mark you can get away with 8 - 10 hours not that critical

so whats the point in doing this then?

hi geordiejen, people who use the darkness system do it to force the ybs to moult so they can race the full program without falling to bits moulting........by opening the loft up at 9 am and darkening it down at 5 pm it is simulating the hours of winter which makes the ybs prematurely moult, when it comes to yb racing the dark ybs are like yearlings therefor giving them an advantage over natural ybs........

massive difference between natural and dark young birds

youngbirds looking like yearlings now

mine still moulting in neck i put them on darkness late

steve1952 wrote:

mine still moulting in neck i put them on darkness late

steve, this is my first time trying the darkness system like you.......but altho all my ybs went on it when the clocks altered ive found the older birds are further on in the moult than the younger birds, as i said they all went onto it at the same time